My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

How I was raised is what I am today.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.